About the Photographer

An emerging talent in nature photography, Alex Mody—winner of the Nature’s Best Windland Smith Rice International 2009 Youth Photographer of the Year Award—specializes in landscape photography. Alex’s nature images have been featured in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Nature’s Best Photography Magazine, Elan Magazine, N-Photo Magazine, and PhotographyLife, as well as on a number of websites including Discovery Channel.com and MSNBC.com. In addition, Alex offers fine art photo prints for sale, has written numerous articles for NatureScapes.net, and leads landscape and nature photography tours and workshops across North America. Alex, just 24 years old, lives in damp and beautiful Olympia, Washington, where he attends The Evergreen State College.